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Re: Request of Floppy Info (FAQ???)

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From: peregrin
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 15:18
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In article <037CC66500605EA8@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu>, PETERSEN@VUCTRVAX.BITNET (Ghost in the -Turing- Machine) writes:
> 
>  
>     The Rainbow uses a DEC disk called an RX-50K, I think.  The RX-50K is
> supplied with a strange, low-level format already applied to it.  You can
> create this format on any HD and most DD disks if you have some of the
> support programs for CCPM-86.

	CPM? Aaaaaghhhh!  That was before my time . . . What do us DOS users
do?

-James
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Subject: Re: Request of Floppy Info (FAQ???)
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